Chocolate Peanut Butter Tamales With Canela Crema Recipes

CHOCOLATE TAMALES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Place chocolate in medium bowl. In small saucepan over medium-high heat, bring milk to a simmer, just short of boiling. Pour hot milk over chocolate and stir until chocolate melts. Set aside to cool.
• Mix masa harina and baking powder in large bowl of heavy duty electric mixer. With mixer on low, pour chocolate over corn flour mixture. Beat on low for 10 minutes. Set aside.
• In separate bowl of electric mixer, cream butter and sugar until pale and fluffy. Add a third of chocolate-corn flour mixture and beat on high until combined. Repeat twice with remaining thirds of chocolate-corn flour mixture; beating well after each addition. Finished mixture should be light and fluffy.
• Spread heaping tablespoon of dough in center of corn husk. Sprinkle 6 or 7 white chocolate chips on dough, then spread another tablespoon of dough over filling. Fold sides of corn husk over filling. With seam facing up, tuck top and bottom flaps under tamale and place on a cookie sheet. Repeat with remaining dough and chocolate.
• Bake in a preheated oven for 35 minutes or until tamales are firm.

CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER "TAMALES" WITH CANELA CREMA

Steps:

• "TAMALES":.
• Combine the peanut butter and powdered sugar in a mixing bowl until well-mixed (either by hand or electric mixer). Divide the mixture into 4 equal pieces, then roll each piece into a flat 2" log. Cover and chill these for 15 minutes.
• Melt the chocolate in a double boiler.
• Lay out the cornhusks, smooth side up. Spoon a generous tablespoon of melted chocolate on a husk and spread it out into a rectangle in the center of the husk. Top chocolate with one log of peanut butter. Fold the husk in on both sides, then turn seam side down on a plate. Repeat with the rest of the husks.
• Chill tamales on a plate in the fridge for at least 30 minutes.
• CREMA:.
• While the tamales are chilling, prepare the crema.
• Whisk yolks and sugar together until well blended. Meanwhile, gently heat the cream, half of the cinnamon, and the vanilla bean in a heavy-bottomed saucepan. Bring to a boil. Pour half of the cream mixture into the egg yolk mixture, whisking constantly as you pour (this tempers the yolks). Pour this mixture back into the saucepan with the rest of the cream over low heat. Stir this continuously and cook until it becomes thick enough to coat a spoon. Remove from the heat and set aside to cool.
• To serve, unwrap the chilled "tamales". You can either place tamale in a puddle of crema on the plate, or you can drizzle crema over the tamale in the opened husk. Sprinkle with the remaining cinnamon.